Stonecrop
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Raised at Ottawa Experimental Farm, Canada. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1927. Fruits have firm, crisp, tender, fine flesh with a sweet flavour.
Family tree
Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.
- Stonecrop Canada, by 1927
- Seed parent Loddington United Kingdom, by about 1820
Sources
- Stonecrop (accession 1957 - 204), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (early october).
